Comments for noah's mark

Comment on emacs and vim by Vimpulse-user

Vimpulse-user — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:10:00 +0000

I agree with everything you just said. I used Emacs for many years,
and I’m pretty damn good at it. However, after I finally broke down
and tried vim for a few months, I really think that modal keybindings
are much cleaner and faster than Emacs-style ones.

Anyway, my current solution is to use vim for quick edits, and Emacs +
viper + vimpulse.el for good vim keybindings in Emacs. This works really
well, and I think this is basically the ideal setup.

Comment on emacs and vim by Vimpulse-user

Vimpulse-user — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:10:52 +0000

I agree with everything you just said. I used Emacs for many years,
and I'm pretty damn good at it. However, after I finally broke down
and tried vim for a few months, I really think that modal keybindings
are much cleaner and faster than Emacs-style ones.

Anyway, my current solution is to use vim for quick edits, and Emacs +
viper + vimpulse.el for good vim keybindings in Emacs. This works really
well, and I think this is basically the ideal setup.

Comment on Eric Meijer invented dumb. by Paul K

Paul K — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00:23 +0000

In general Eric Meijer is very careful to give credit where credit is due… Care to post the link to his talk so we can decide for ourselves?

Comment on a new test for idiocy by allergies_cures

allergies_cures — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:33:32 +0000

Please give me more information. I love it, Thanks again.

Comment on a new test for idiocy by allergies_cures

allergies_cures — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:33:00 +0000

Please give me more information. I love it, Thanks again.

Comment on Firefox’s SSL policy is not bad, you idiot by eddiepetosa

eddiepetosa — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:50:51 +0000

Besides the funny ssl certificates messages Firefox is using, I also got another funny message when my browser crashed. It was something like this: "This is embarrassing...". When I first saw it I had to print screen it and send it to my entire messenger list. Now when I get it I'm as mad as hell because it happens at least twice per day. I finally upgraded. I really hope Firefox won't crash anymore.

Comment on Firefox’s SSL policy is not bad, you idiot by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:50:00 +0000

Comment on a new test for idiocy by Name

Name — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:59:13 +0000

Wow. Nicely put, with a humane understanding of the desperation many parents of autistic children feel. I can't fault anything in your post. I would add there is a case to be made against some vaccines that is resolutely pro-science and makes no claims whatever regarding autism. Some drugs are effective, some are not. Some have significant side effects, some don't. Many family medicine docs don't have time to weigh the pros and cons, or review the actual studies for everything on the vaccination schedule. They can be forgiven for listening to drug reps who sound sciency.

The science shows that immunity from vaccination is often less comprehensive and doesn't last as long as that from exposure to live, wild viruses. I will accept that, and happily, in the case of tetanus, but not in the case of chicken pox. There are some vaccines where we opted out. In our judgement, after a review of the peer-reviewed literature, in some cases the risks outweighed the effectiveness-weighted benefits. In cases where eradication was in the cards (polio), we opted in regardless of risk.

I do think Big Pharma (not a weasel word - they call themselves that) does some evil shit. Lobbying against universal health care coverage; looting the treasury via lobbying in the recent Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act; spending orders of magnitude more on advertising than on research and development; retiring safe, effective drugs in favor of new ones whose sole advantage is unexpired patents; and so on. Most of the big ones have been caught keeping unsafe drugs on the market, and doctoring tests during the approval process.

This view of the industry has little to do with science, an approach to knowing shit we both follow. It has a lot to do with douches, some of whom are polluting what is really a crazy cool technology. "Here: this stuff cures you."

Comment on a new test for idiocy by homoeopathic treatment

homoeopathic treatment — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:44:33 +0000

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Comment on “The Legend of the Seeker” by lien86

lien86 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:04:47 +0000

I'm just watching the tv series, it's ok but probably only as I haven't read the book. All books are better than the films/tv adaptations (even with the hot women as you point out). The imagination of the individual is (I sincerely hope, anyway) better than anyone you can watch on tv.

Just thought I'd agree with you and add that I enjoyed such a summary that I agreed with and made me laugh.

I think after seeing the series I should read the books. Any others you would recommend? I'm currently reading The Wheel of Time and rather enjoy fantasy books.